Airs For The Lute Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: ABCBCCB DEDEDDAFGFG HIHJAKLLLK KGGGK KMMMK NOPN QMQQ EREE| I | A |
| When the sobbing lute complains | B |
| Grieving for an ancient sorrow | C |
| This poor sorrow that remains | B |
| Fain would borrow | C |
| To give pleading unto sorrow | C |
| Those uncapturable strains | B |
| - | |
| All that hands upon the lute | D |
| Helped the voices to declare | E |
| Voices mute | D |
| But for this might I not share | E |
| If alas I could but suit | D |
| Hand and voice unto the lute | D |
| II | A |
| If time so sweetly | F |
| On true according viols make | G |
| Her own completely | F |
| The lawless laws of turn and shake | G |
| - | |
| How should I doubt then | H |
| Love being tuned unto your mood | I |
| Should bring about then | H |
| True time and measure of your blood | J |
| III | A |
| Why are you sorrowful in dreams | K |
| I am sad in the night | L |
| The hours till morning are white | L |
| I hear the hours' flight | L |
| All night in dreams | K |
| - | |
| Why do you send me your dreams | K |
| For an old love's sake | G |
| I dream if I sleep or wake | G |
| And shall but one heart ache | G |
| For the sake of dreams | K |
| - | |
| Pray that we sleep without dreams | K |
| Ah love the only way | M |
| To put sorrow away | M |
| Night or day night or day | M |
| From the way of dreams | K |
| IV | - |
| Strange to remember tears | N |
| Yet I know that I wept | O |
| And those hopes and those fears | P |
| Strange were as real as tears | N |
| - | |
| What's this delicate pain | Q |
| Twilight coloured and grey | M |
| Odour like through my brain | Q |
| Steals a shadowy pain | Q |
| - | |
| What's this joy in the air | E |
| Musical as the leaves | R |
| When the white winds are there | E |
| Faint joy breathes in the air | E |
Arthur Symons
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